Christopher J. Cleal, Barry A. Thomas (Aberystwyth University of Wales)

Introduction to Plant Fossils

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A practical and extensively illustrated guide to studying plant fossils for the non-specialist. Newly revised, it describes how modern research techniques can reveal hidden details of the original plants, and how vegetation has evolved over 500 million years. For students and non-specialists in palaeobotany, palaeontology and plant evolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 188mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781108705028
• ISBN-10: 1108705022
• Artikelnr.: 54914759

Autorenporträt

Christopher J. Cleal is Head of Botany at National Museum Wales. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society, London, and the Linnean Society, London, and is a member of the Fossil Plant Committee of the International Association of Plant Taxonomy (IAPT). He has published nine books and over 200 papers in academic journals, dealing with palaeobotany, stratigraphy and geoconservation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Highlights of palaeobotanical study
3. Studying plant fossils
4. Early land plants
5. Lycophytes
6. Sphenophytes
7. Ferns
8. Early gymnosperms
9. Modern gymnosperms
10. Angiosperms
11. The history of land vegetation.